Foxeaf Your Goruchu is so cool 8)can i use it on a adoptable Pokemon game site "Pokeheroes.com"? This image will be used as a mega Raichu Sprite So can i use it?If your are giving me permission.....So please give Permission of this image that you are allowing me to use this for this web Pokeheroes.comI will be very grateful!Thanks please reply.....~PikaHero

This is by far the best concept art for Gorochu out there. It still has that old Sugimori design feel from Gen I, but also has a modern look that would fit in well with the newer 'mons. I truly hope that at some point Game Freak introduces Gorochu as a split evo for Pikachu, and that it looks something like this. I can see it being Electric/Dark or Electric/Fighting.

I get ya, the style and look of the newer Pokémon have definitely gone in a different direction, not all will enjoy it! There are some really good ones, such as Mimikyu and Phantump. :") Check them out some time.

Wow...I absolutely love it! It has an extra sense of "coolness" and "toughness", and definitely looks like it'd be usable in the OU tier...yet, it still maintains the same type of cuteness that the rest of the Pikachu line shares. Making it a cool and cute Pokemon...which are my favorite types! Cute but still powerful are my favorites!

I also like how it's not overly designed, and maintains the simple design that most Pokemon from the first gen games would have, due to the software limitations at the time. It also looks like Ken Sugimori's old water color style, so...that's a plus!

Overall, I think this is my favorite Gorochu concept yet! My only nitpick is that I think the tail would look better yellow rather than the reddish orange color the rest of it's body is...but like I said, I'm just nitpicking at this point.

This has got to be my favorite Gorochu design yet. Wish I'd thought of using the "Raijin swirlies" (no idea if there's an actual name for those, heh) for the cheek pouches and a third on the forehead when I was drawing mine!

SO far, I looked at the other takes on the Gorochu, and this one is my most favorite because it not only takes the description of what the proposed evolution looks like from the words, but it really does fit nicely to being closer to more like a thunder god mouse that still has its cute look.

It would have been to close to legendary stat that required very hard work and conditions to be set right....

I've seen something like this! Bulbapedia had an article on unused Pokemon designs, and there was a little spiky thing that looked like it could be this creature's pre-evolution. Perhaps that was the original sprite design?